Humanities 101 – Analysis Paper #1
Assignment Objectives:
You will write TWO analysis each 3 pages long; including additional page for sources. Also I will email you the requirements for topic ideas. I can not upload it here, it wont save. DO this after all the following requirements.
1)Recognize the great achievements of human beings and the values that produce those achievements.
2)Relate how knowledge gained through different disciplines (particularly art, music, literature, philosophy, or religion) combine to create a more complete understanding of a culture and its society.
3)Identify the major concepts, figures, and artistic expressions associated with the cultures of the ancient world.
4)Identify the value systems influencing the aesthetic choices of various cultures.
Analyze the great works of human achievement in relation to specific historical and social contexts.
Directions: You will write two of these analysis papers over the course of this session. Each assignment needs to take ONE cultural artifact and analyze it as an archeologist would.
For example, for one paper you may write an analysis of a piece of architecture from ancient times. For your second paper, you may choose to analyze a piece of art from the Renaissance.
– Each analysis should come from a different era or period covered in the readings and viewings. You must write on artifacts from two different eras
Examples:
Architecture (buildings, churches, monuments, tombs, etc.)
Art (paintings, murals, frescos, sculptures, stained glass, etc.
Literature/Music (creative works: musical compositions, poetry, plays, stories, etc.)
Treatises (written non-fiction documents on Religion, Philosophy, History, etc.)
A detailed description of the cultural artifact: what it looks like, how it is put together, how it was made.
Some background of the culture that produced the artifact. Your emphasis is on what the artifact tells us about the culture, not on what course materials or some other history book tells you about the artifact.
A well-argued analysis of what the work tell us about the culture from which it arose using details from the artifact and known information about the culture. You must also use a scholarly article to discuss other theories about the artifact and what it tells us about the culture that created it. Consider what the significance of the work was for the people who first saw/heard/read it.
YOU MUST USE: Appropriate Sources:
1) JSOR; cite these sources
2) Legitimate sources for the artifacts could include a tourist site for architecture
